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Notices Federal Register

4998 

Vol. 72, No. 22 

Friday, February 2, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

January 29, 2007. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: Regulation Governing 

Inspection, Certification, and Standards 

for Fresh Fruits, Vegetables and other 

Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0125. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 

gives authorization to USDA to inspect, 

certify and identify the class, quantity, 

quality and condition of agricultural 

produces when shipped or received in 

interstate commerce and to enter into 

cooperative agreements with 

cooperating Federal-State inspection 

Agencies that provide for this 

inspection work. The Fresh Products 

Branch provides a nationwide 

inspection and grading service for fresh 

fruits, vegetables, and other products to 

shippers, importers, processors, sellers, 

buyers and other financially interested 

parties on a ‘‘user-fee’’ basis. The 

program is voluntary and services are 

made available only upon request or 

when specified by some special program 

or contact. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Various forms are used to collect 

information. Such information includes: 

the name and location of the person or 

company requesting the inspection, the 

type and location of the product to be 

inspected, the type of inspection being 

requested and any information that will 

identify the product. The information 

collected is needed to carry out the 

inspection and grading services. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for profit. 

Number of Respondents: 55,280. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 8,772. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–1675 Filed 2–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Newspaper Used for Publication of 

Legal Notice of Appealable Decisions 

for the Northern Region; Northern 

Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and 

portions of South Dakota and Eastern 

Washington 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice lists the 

newspaper that will be used by all 

Ranger Districts, Forests, Grasslands, 

and the Regional Office of the Northern 

Region to publish legal notices for pubic 

comment and decisions subject to 

appeal and predecisional administrative 

review under 36 CFR 215, 217, and 218. 

The intended effect of this action is to 

inform interested members of the public 

which newspapers will be used to 

publish legal notices for public 

comment or decisions; thereby allowing 

them to receive constructive notice of a 

decision, to provide clear evidence of 

timely notice, and to achieve 

consistency in administering the 

appeals process. 

DATES: Publication of legal notices in 

the listed newspapers will begin with 

decisions subject to appeal that are 

made on or after January 22, 2007. The 

list of newspaper will remain in effect 

until another notice is published in the 

Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Appeals and Litigation Group Leader; 

Northern Region; P.O. Box 7669; 

Missoula, Montana 59807. Phone: (406) 

329–3696. 

The newspapers to be used are as 

follows: 

Northern Regional Office 

Regional Forester decisions in Montana: 

The Missoulian, Great Falls Tribune, and 

The Billings Gazette. 

Regional Forester decisions in Northern 

Idaho and Eastern Washington: 

Coeur d’Alene Press and Lewiston Tribune. 

Regional Forester decisions in North Dakota: 

Bismarck Tribune. 

Regional Forester decisions in South Dakota: 

Bismarck Tribune. 

Beaverhead/Deerlodge NF— Montana 

Standard. 

Bitterroot NF—Ravalli Republic. 

Clearwater NF— Lewiston Tribune. 

Custer NF—Billings Gazette (Montana), 

Rapid City Journal (South Dakota). 


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Dakota Prairie Grasslands—Bismarck 

Tribune (North and South Dakota). 

Flathead NF—Daily Inter Lake. 

Gallatin NF—Bozeman Chronicle. 

Helena NF—Independent Record. 

Idaho Panhandle NFs—Coeur d’Alene 

Press. 

Kootenai NF—Daily Inter Lake. 

Lewis & Clark NF—Great Falls Tribune. 

Lolo NF—Missoulian. 

Nez Perce NF—Lewiston Tribune. 

Supplemental notices may be placed 

in any newspaper, but time frames/ 

deadlines will be calculated based upon 

notices in newspapers of record listed 

above. 

Dated: January 26, 2007. 

Kathleen A. McAllister, 

Deputy Regional Forester. 

[FR Doc. 07–459 Filed 2–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Plumas National Forest; Plumas 

County, CA; Empire Vegetation 

Management Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

supplement to the environmental 

impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service will 

prepare a supplement to the Empire 

Vegetation Management Project Final 

Environmental Impact Statement. This 

supplement will replace the 2006 

supplement. This supplement will 

clarify Management Indicator Species 

and soil and watershed effects. In 

addition, the supplement will take into 

account field data and information 

gathered since 2005. It will also 

incorporate information presented in 

the 2006 supplement and the 2005 Final 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

DATES: Scoping is not required for 

supplements to environmental impact 

statements (40 CFR 1502.9(c)4(4)). The 

draft supplemental environmental 

impact statement is expected to be 

issued in February 2007 and the final 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement is expected in May 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Plumas National Forest, 159 

Lawrence Street, P.O. Box 11500, 

Quincy, CA 95971; Mount Hough 

Ranger District, 39696 Highway 70, 

Quincy, CA 95971. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Rotta, Interdisciplinary Team Leader, 

Mt. Hough Ranger District 39696 

Highway 70, Quincy, CA 95971 (530) 

283–7687. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first 

notice of intent for this project was 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 9, 2005. The Notice of 

Availability for the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement was published on 

May 20, 2005. A Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (2005 FEIS) and 

Record of Decision were issued on 

August 9, 2005. The decision was 

appealed and later reversed on 

November 18, 2005. 

At the request of the Forest 

Supervisor, the Federal Register 

published a Notice of Intent on 

December 28, 2005 to prepare a 

supplement to the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement. The Federal Register 

published a Notice of Availability of a 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement on February 24, 2006. 

A Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement and Record of 

Decision were issued in August 2006. 

The project was appealed again and the 

Forest Supervisor withdrew his August 

2006 Record of Decision. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need remain the 

same as was described in the 2005 FEIS. 

The purpose of and need for the project 

has three elements: (1) To implement 

fuel reduction in the Wildland Urban 

Interface (WUI) and, as part of the larger 

HFQLG fuel treatment strategic network 

as called for by the HFQLG Act (Section 

401[b][1] and [d][1] and HFQLG 

amendment to the LRMP, to reduce the 

potential size and intensity of wildfires 

and provide fire suppression personnel 

safe locations for taking action against 

wildfires; (2) to implement group 

selection and individual tree selection, 

as directed in the HFQLG Act (Section 

401[b][1] and [d][2]) and the HFQLG 

amendment to the LRMP, to test the 

effectiveness of an uneven-aged 

silvicultural system in achieving an allaged, multistory, fire resilient forest, 

providing an adequate timber supply 

that contributes to the economic 

stability of rural communities, and 

improving and maintaining ecological 

health of the forest; and (3) to reduce 

impacts of the transportation system on 

forest resources and provide the 

necessary access for the fuel treatments 

and the group and individual tree 

selection harvests. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action will remain the 

same as described in the 2005 FEIS. 

Possible Alternatives 

Alternatives include varied levels of 

fuel treatments, group selection timber 

harvest, individual tree selection 

harvest and transportation system 

improvement. 

Responsible Official 

Jim Pen ̃ a, Forest Supervisor, Plumas 

National Forest, PO Box 11500, Quincy, 

CA 95971. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The responsible official will decide 

whether to implement the proposed 

action, an alternative to the proposed 

action, or not to implement the project 

at this time. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review: A draft 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement will be prepared for comment. 

The comment period on the draft 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement will be 45 days from the date 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the notice of availability in 

the Federal Register. 

The Forest Service believes, at this 

early stage, it is important to give 

reviewers notice of several court rulings 

related to public participation in the 

environmental review process. 

First, reviewers of draft supplemental 

environmental impact statements must 

structure their participation in the 

environmental review of the proposal so 

that it is meaningful and alerts an 

agency to the reviewer’s position and 

contentions. Vermont Yankee Nuclear 

Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 

(1978). Also, environmental objections 

that could be raised at the draft 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement stage but that are not raised 

until after completion of the final 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement may be waived or dismissed 

by the courts. City of Angoon v. Hodel, 

803 F.2d 1016, 1022 (9th Cir. 1986) and 

Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. v. Harris, 490 

F. Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980). 

Because of these court rulings, it is very 

important that those interested in this 

proposed action participate by the close 

of the 45-day comment period so that 

substantive comments and objections 

are made available to the Forest Service 

at a time when it can meaningfully 

consider them and respond to them in 

the final supplemental environmental 

impact statement. 

To assist the Forest Service in 

identifying and considering issues and 

concerns on the proposed action, 

comments on the draft supplemental 

environmental impact statement should 

be as specific as possible. It is also 

helpful if comments refer to specific 

pages of the draft supplement. 

Comments may also address the 

adequacy of the draft supplemental 


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